New Delhi: After 40-day investigation in alleged discovery of cash Justice Yashwant VermaOn the night of March 14, residence, a three -member judicial panel presented a voluntary report. CJI Sanjeev KhannaReport of Dhananjay Mahapatra. The report describes the mysterious disappearance of the cash caught in the sequence of incidents after the fire incident and a video shot by the first respondents.
However, there was no information about the voluntary report or the nature of its findings. The report has learned to attach the statements of more than 50 witnesses investigated by the panel.
Panel conclusions are not binding, ball is now in CJI court
The witnesses included the Delhi Police Commissioner, Delhi Fire Services The chiefs who had made contradictory statements, some Delhi High Court employees, before the fire, along with the responsibility of the security personnel posted at the residence of the judge.
Eight days after the incident, CJI formed a panel which included Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana Sheel Nagu, Himachal Pradesh CJ GS Sandhwalia and Justice Anu Shivraman of Karnataka HC, Anu Shivraman, who were investigating the allegations against Justice Verma. Under the memorandum of the process, the CJI report is the only right to decide the course of action based on the content of the report, even though panel conclusions are not binding. If the report is unfavorable to Justice Verma, which has since been reversed for Allahabad HC, CJI can order an FIR’s accommodation for one. Formal inquiry By police.
CJI, if he thinks fit, may also recommend the union government to initiate the pace of removal against the judge, if the panel has recorded specific conclusions of wrongdoing and his prima facial participation in snatching cash in the outhouse of his residence has caught fire.
If the panel does not give any evidence of wrongdoing on the judge’s part, CJI may order a formal inquiry or decide to close the case and allow the judicial Verma to resume judicial work, which has been withdrawn from 22 March.
The fire broke out on 14 March at 11.30. The Delhi Police Commissioner informed Delhi HC CJ DK DK Upadhyay the next day at 4.50 pm, who informed the CJI on 16 March. Police also handed over the Delhi HC CJ photo and a video of burning inside a room.
Later, CJI Khanna uploaded a video of Burning Cash on the official website of SC. He also asked Justice Verma not to remove any data from his personal phone. In his response to HC CJ, Justice Verma said, “I unequally tell that neither I nor any member of any of my family had stored or kept any cash or currency in that storeroom at any time.
